Author Archives: Anna McAllister, Copywriter

Seattle Aquarium volunteer inspires conservation in her workplace

Seattle Aquarium volunteer Annie Spalding is at the end of an incredibly challenging decade. She was treated for cancer—along with her mother, grandmother and brother. Her brother didn’t survive. But Annie chose to create something positive from the heartbreak she more »

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Healthy barnacles, healthy grunt sculpins

Have you seen the grunt sculpins in the Seattle Aquarium’s Puget Sound Fish exhibit? They’re entertaining to watch because of their awkward way of swimming: they “crawl” on the tips of their finger-like pectoral fins in a series of twitchy more »

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Octopus Week a hit with young visitor

The Seattle Aquarium’s annual Octopus Week event came to a close on February 24—but not before it made some wonderful memories for plenty of Aquarium visitors, including a 4-year-old boy named Jacob. Jacob was in Washington to visit his grandmother more »

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Seattle Aquarium aims to go carbon neutral

In mid-January, through the planting of 82 trees, the Seattle Aquarium offset its carbon output via an innovative program launched in 2012 called Carbon Capturing Companies (or C3). Developed by Forterra (formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy), the program recruits businesses more »

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Sound Conversations with Elliott Norse, Ph.D.: March 7 at the Seattle Aquarium

“If the ocean was our retirement portfolio, we’d be worried,” says Dr. Elliott Norse. A global thinker and author who’s devoted his career to conserving life in our seas and forests, he worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the more »

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